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"Not now, my dear Sophia," said the Dean. "Gentlemen are crowding into the ranks. They are setting a noble example." They argued it out in their gentle old-fashioned way. The Dean quoted examples of sons of family who had served as privates in the South African War. "And that to this," said he, "is but an eddy to a maelstrom." "Come and join us, James Marmaduke," said Oliver across the table.
This side of Væröe lay the large island of Mosköe, between which and a large solitary rock in the middle of the strait dividing them, is the locality of the renowned Maelström now, alas! almost as mythical as the kraaken or great sea snake of the Norwegian fjords. It is a great pity that the geographical illusions of our boyish days cannot retrain.
The Duchess had set her preparations for future possibilities in train before other women had quite begun to believe in their existence. Lady Lothwell had at first laughed quite gaily at certain long lists she found her mother occupied with though this, it is true, was in early days. But Robin, even while whirled by the maelstrom, could not cease thinking certain vague remote thoughts.
"On Friday, sir; I am afraid that I am engaged to Lady Maelstrom; but that is of no consequence I will write an excuse to her ladyship." "Lady Maelstrom! how very odd that you should bring up her name after our conversation." "Why so, my dear sir?"
"I have prayed night after night to God to relieve my necessities; I have walked the town through and through in the effort to procure work, but my prayers have been unanswered, and my efforts have proven unavailing. At times the thought of the maelstrom of woe into which I am plunged, has well nigh driven me to madness.
Silent, all day, she labored. She was alone at noon under the river-bordered trees, eating her coarse fare without zest, but with a conscience, to sustain the body that was born to toil. But in the maelström of doubt and anxiety was she tossed and whirled, and she cared not for her life. To be rid of it, now for the first time, she felt might be a blessing. What purpose, indeed, had she?
My imposition, as they pleased to term it, was the theme of every party, and many were the indignant remarks of the dowagers who had so often indirectly proposed to me their daughters; and if there was anyone more virulent than the rest, I hardly need say that it was Lady Maelstrom, who nearly killed her job horses in driving about from one acquaintance to another, to represent my unheard-of atrocity in presuming to deceive my betters.
The lecture-room was futile enough, but the faculty-room was worse. American society feared total wreck in the maelstrom of political and corporate administration, but it could not look for help to college dons. Adams knew, in that capacity, both Congressmen and professors, and he preferred Congressmen. The same failure marked the society of a college.
An instant later, they were sending wild cries of joy through the château, and people were rushing toward them from all quarters. The trim white thing that glided across the harbour, graceful as a bird, was the Marquess's yacht! It is needless to describe the joyous gale that swept the château into a maelstrom of emotions.
She had the divinest straight nose, tip-tilted the faintest, most alluring trifle, and a dimple cleft her chin, "the deadliest maelstrom in the world!" He thrilled through and through. He had been only vaguely conscious of the dimple in the night. It was not until he saw her by daylight that he really knew it was there. The village hummed with life before them.
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